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mackenzie said:
We were told the ventilation was bad though, and every window had to be opened. Not great when you have a neck/arm problem and have been in pain for 6 months. Waiting for a MRI scan now but it's been 4 weeks since referral and not heard anything yet.
I know it's not "urgent" as it's probably just a nerve blockage (as the doc at hospital said) but I'm in pain all the time now :-(
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Like isn’t probably the best thing to see but hopefully you get my point.
 
Healdplace said:
Other news today:

Birmingham rose again to 507 - it is the biggest riser over the past week so West Midlands may yet change tiers.

This was the most today. Manchester - despite falling - was above Liverpool again which has fallen steadily in the past few days and was under 300 for first time since I have been tracking it daily.

Bradford at 307 - though itself well down - was higher than Liverpool today.

Knowsley also continued its better numbers - though only dropping from 107 to 106. And at 3625 it is still top of the Pops(cores).

Blackburn though - which has been running high all week - is in the 3400s at 3427 and could take that lead sooner or later.

Nottingham was down for the fifth straight day to 203 but looks likely to pass into the 3000 club tomorrow.

Burnley and Rossendale were both up too and Bacup (a ward in Rossendale) is in the top 50 worst in the country on the recent data numbers I saw in a list today. Aliong with multiple GM wards.

Will keep my eye on here and Warringtom now it is in tier 3. It has 4792 cases - less cases than any town in GM, And a Pop Score of 2282 - which is lower than everyone in GM but Trafford and Stockport. It had 79 cases today. and its Pop score went up 38 - lower than any place in GM has done for some time in one day.
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No the West Midlands as a whole will not change tiers. Birmingham probably will though.
 
Alan Harper's Tash said:
Why would sirens be on near a hospital? They’re only used to alert other road users.

I know Leeds pretty well. Are you in a block of flats or are you down near where Savile lived?
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Being dispatched to another job after dropping off the previous,or arriving at the ED with a 'standby'.Unless nighttime,and,as you say,no other road users around,sirens are always required to accompany blue lights.
 
JASR said:
Smaller, spaced out populations compared to France and especially U.K. also generally fitter and healthier than France, Spain and especially U.K.
Generally also more knowledgeable, with higher educational levels, happiness levels etc etc.

comparing U.K. , France, Spain (and Belgium and Italy) is fine. You should throw in Germany as similar - and it’s their figures which are better per capita that need to be looked at, as to why.
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Germany is much less densly populated than you would think at 227/km² Belgium is 383/ķm², England 496/km² and the UK as a whole 266/km²
 
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So the Government are cutting laptop allocations to schools for remote learning by 80%. Do they all know there is a pandemic ffs.
 
Seeing my daughter today for the first time in 6 weeks after she has recovered and finally tested negative. Home for a while to recover fully and recharge batteries. She is going to do from now until Xmas on line from here and go back after Xmas. (Liverpool uni)
 
BlueAnorak said:
Germany is much less densly populated than you would think at 227/km² Belgium is 383/ķm², England 496/km² and the UK as a whole 266/km²
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Yes, that’s why ‘broadly’ equivalent comes to mind. But each country has urban/sparsely populated areas.

Hence why having locally different levels in U.K. makes perfect sense ... albeit sometimes confusing and leading to ‘hohoho’ media stories about a ‘street divided’ when one side is in a different area to the other.
They go with the ‘hohoho’ - but never offer how they’d do it differently.
 
Alan Harper's Tash said:
Why would sirens be on near a hospital? They’re only used to alert other road users.

I know Leeds pretty well. Are you in a block of flats or are you down near where Savile lived?
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I hear what I hear, as I can now, I also have a good enough panorama of the south and west of the city to see the specks of blue on their calls every night.
 
PannickAtTheDisco said:
I hear what I hear, as I can now, I also have a good enough panorama of the south and west of the city to see the specks of blue on their calls every night.
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There are also traffic lights in all directions close to the LGI. I guess an Ambulance might use its siren to help avoid being held up by traffic at the lights (though I know the lights would change to green anyway).
 
JASR said:
Yes, that’s why ‘broadly’ equivalent comes to mind. But each country has urban/sparsely populated areas.

Hence why having locally different levels in U.K. makes perfect sense ... albeit sometimes confusing and leading to ‘hohoho’ media stories about a ‘street divided’ when one side is in a different area to the other.
They go with the ‘hohoho’ - but never offer how they’d do it differently.
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True but German towns and City's are less densly populated than ours. West Germany consciously built back with more open spaces in their cities after WW2.
 
Sadly after the match today's data is not going to cheer any of us up.

England hospital deaths a horrifying 185 - with 74 in the NW alone.

That is 99 up from last Saturday when it was 86 with 33 in the NW.

The battle of ideas on here about the rise of deaths in the second wave not even being enough to count as a second wave a few weeks back has been rather silenced by events.

These numbers are risiong even faster than I feared and it looks like the dithering and delay yet again is now going to lead to hundreds of deaths a day for the foreseaable future. Unless something really happens to change that.

Which I am not expecting to be anybody making the right decisions urgently or knowing what to do to stop this accelertion. Which in the past ten days has been quite frightening.
 
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